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Systematic Status of the Colubrid Snake, Leptodeira discolor Günther
Systematic Status of the Colubrid Snake, Leptodeira discolor Günther
BY WILLIAM E. DUELLMAN At the time of completing my study of the genus Leptodeira (1958) I had seen no specimens of Leptodeira discolor , a species described by Günther in 1860 and subsequently referred to the genus Hypsiglena by Cope (1887), Boulenger (1894), and Mocquard (1908), and to the genus Pseudoleptodeira by Taylor (1938). Günther's description was based on two syntypes (British Museum of Natural History numbers 1946.1.23.67 and 68) collected in Oaxaca, México, by Auguste Sallé. Informa
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LITERATURE CITED
LITERATURE CITED
Amaral, A. do 1930 Estudos sobre ophidios neotropicos XVIII—Lista remissiva dos ophidios da região neotropica. Mem. Inst. Butantan, 4:129-275. Boulenger, G. A. 1894 Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). London, 2:xi + 382, pls. 1-20, figs. 1-25. Cope, E. D. 1887 Catalogue of the batrachians and reptiles of Central America and Mexico. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 32:1-98. Duellman, W. E. 1958 A monographic study of the colubrid snake genus Leptodeira . Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. H
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